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I'm more likely I'm missing something, or assuming the main use of windmill is similar to how I use this, when it's just a small overlap.

The problem I needed to solve was how to enable employees outside of engineering to run scripts written by engineers, without them having to set up/interact with a full scripting environment like node. Particularly managing secrets and auth was a problem.

That slack "future" thing makes it very easy to drop a js or ts script into a new "workflow" and push it into the slack org. You can attach it to a slack modal or form, have auto-complete hints, just generally piggy-back on the slack UI that everyone is already familiar with.

It's basically deno with the slack UI over it from the user's perspective.

Again I don't know if this solves any problems people would be using windmill to solve, but if I were using windmill I'd probably be using it for something similar to this.



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